How'd it go today?

I was planning to have a few chill relaxed days breezing through this job, but thats not happening now LOL

almost want to call my crane guy and see if he's available, but we don't have the ground crew to keep up since we'd be doing 6000 pound picks constantly, 2 picks and trucks full, 10 minutes per pick, its 45 minutes round trip for me to dump assuming I don't get stuck at the dump, crane would do more sitting than working
 
WoodCutr said:
I was planning to have a few chill relaxed days breezing through this job, but thats not happening now LOL

almost want to call my crane guy and see if he's available, but we don't have the ground crew to keep up since we'd be doing 6000 pound picks constantly, 2 picks and trucks full, 10 minutes per pick, its 45 minutes round trip for me to dump assuming I don't get stuck at the dump, crane would do more sitting than working
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Around here we would hire a grapple truck to haul it. About $500 for them to load and haul 65 yards of tree debris. Just stack it up where they can get to it. But maybe you are too far out in the sticks to have any local grapple truck companies.
 
This morning I pulled up to my local diner and saw this parked out front. A 1947 Lincoln. Upon closer inspection it is obviously a resto-mod with modern drivetrain and conveniences like power windows and air conditioning. An old transmission guy on another forum pointed out the original came with a flathead v-12 engine and manual trans 3 on the tree. Steering column is from a newer vehicle. Very nicely done, the car is gorgeous!
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I didn't find my old post on the M18 top handle, but my big complaint was the chain speed. It has tons of torque, but really wants to be dogged and pushed. Small branches were a pain because it wasn't aggressive enough. I filed with the 4.5mm files that lxsklr sent me, and then took five swipes on each raker. That was enough to make a huge difference. In the limited amount I've been able to use it, I've noticed it pulls better, rather than having to dog it as hard. Battery life is improved. I packed it in on the trail to cut up an 18"+ red oak that fell on a bridge. It only used half of an 8.0 Forge battery.

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Bad here too, my dog got KOd by em couple weeks ago, thank goodness for anti biotics
 
SkwerI said:
Around here we would hire a grapple truck to haul it. About $500 for them to load and haul 65 yards of tree debris. Just stack it up where they can get to it. But maybe you are too far out in the sticks to have any local grapple truck companies.
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theres 2 guys here with grapple trucks (that will work for others, the rest won't), one is a drunk that I quit working for, plus his truck was broken down literally every time I'd call him, the other guy wants a thousand bucks for his ~65yd truck loaded, and good luck getting on the schedule

grapple truck was an idea, but in the long run itll be faster and cheaper to chip it on this job, I do hire a grapple when theres lots of vines, never again will I chip vines, spend 6 hours sitting inside the slider box with a pair of pliers and a silky, and you will rethink a lot of life choices
 
I wish there were grapple trucks around here for hire. Northern and Lewis have their own.
If I custom saw again, I have decided that if you don't take your slabs with you, then you pay me $20/hr extra, and that goes for trucking and disposal fees.
 
I can't recall having much problem chipping vines. Sometimes it easily pulls the whole wad in, others I stick a branch in behind to sweep it all in.
 
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WoodCutr said:
I was planning to have a few chill relaxed days breezing through this job, but thats not happening now LOL

almost want to call my crane guy and see if he's available, but we don't have the ground crew to keep up since we'd be doing 6000 pound picks constantly, 2 picks and trucks full, 10 minutes per pick, its 45 minutes round trip for me to dump assuming I don't get stuck at the dump, crane would do more sitting than working
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why not do it in 2 day‘s?
 
Skeleton crew today removing one side of a pretty holow punky oak or a custys fence from the neighbors.
Got that done and cleared poison oak in the work area on the next leader on an oak, in rocks leaning hard over her fence and gate. Could reach the house too I guess.
So start on that tomorrow. All set up.
 
CurSedVoyce said:
FYI. That saw rips just fine pulling way more bar than it needs. Best thing you could do with that saw is just a proper exhaust can. Already friggen loud. But a tad more exhale is all it needs.
I would not even consider porting or polishing. No need.
Add a square chisel chain. Not a damn race saw. It's a great felling saw and light enough and aggressive enough to do big wood in a tree.
My .02.
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One problem with the 500i is you have to let it warm up properly before working it hard, or it will cold seize, not necessarily seize to a stop, but after it scores enough times it will seize. For whatever reason that model seems more prone to it. The piston expands faster than the cylinder.
 
got rained out and didn't even get the first of 3 trees done on this job today, not very happy about this, especially because all we did was make a mess, get wet and waste money on rental equipment, because and I quote "its too wet up in the tree to climb"
I'd climb if I didn't have a sprained wrist, its about all I got to run a saw on the ground or shift the dump truck right now

DOT Blitz week starts tomorrow, really don't want to run the trucks during blitz week but I seriously doubt I can rack up more tickets than this job is worth :D
this job has been a total nightmare, contract deadlines, weather, the other company's schedule and finding help, rentals, just one of those jobs that makes me regret owning a company, but in the end it'll pay off
 
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I fell victim to a self-inflicted issue once. Though I wasn't the self who did the inflicting, just the victim :/:.

I had to borrow a 4x4 pickup from a co-worker for a couple of days as mine was in the shop for some moderate-high regular scheduled maintenance. At one point in my day's work, I needed to use 4x4 to negotiate a steep and muddy grade to a logging landing. This was a late 1990's Dodge 3/4 ton. Not known for their strong 4x4 performance...the slip diffs gutted their abilities significantly anyway, so when I engaged the shifter to 4 by and started up the slope, I was not totally surprised when I immediately slid sideways and off the shoulder on the rear right corner.

After a little messing about though, it became obvious that there was no drive from the front wheels at all. But with some further messing about, I got the rig back on the road, RWD only :).

Later I did some asking (read "interrogation"), and it turned out that the usual operator of this truck had tried to shift into 4x4 from normal 2x4 at far too high a speed (this was a rig with automatic front wheel drive engagement, known as "shift on the fly" in some quarters), breaking "something". Too embarrassed to take it to our mechanics' shop. Been driving it that way for months.

No accounting for foolishness, sometimes.

I did not return it to him, as I'd told him he should now expect :)...just traded it in to the shop when I picked up my own truck. Told them the general story, got the expected rolling eyes, but that rig got fixed right, and the usual driver got taught a lesson from both me and the mechanics.
 
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